[Coco] moving files on bootup

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 04 February 2008, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:50:54 -0600, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>

>

>wrote:

>> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:17:45AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

>>> You forgot the smiley.  Hope I didn't bore some of you with that story.

>>

>> Sorry.  My bad.  And I love your stories about CoCo2s and TV

>> stations.  Fascinating.

>>

>>> 8 serial ports?

>>

>> He didn't give us the crunchy techinical details, just that he had 8

>> terminals hooked up to his CoCo.

>>

>>> Heck, I'd shoot the neighbors

>>> cat for a RocketPort 8 for this linux box!

>>

>> You and me both.

>

>Yes, 8 serial ports, using both the 6552 (the same serial chip that both

>the Eliminator and the TC-9 used- All the hardware bugs on the 6551 were

>gone, and each port could handle 2 ports up to 38400 baud), and a Comm-4

>6551 based (RS-232 pak compatible) 4 port board from Alpha Technologies.

>We had the 2 ports on the Eliminator itself, plus a custom board that Bill

>Nobel built with a 6552 (and I think one of our 6821 parallel ports too)

>for 2 more. We had all 4 slots filled in that thing; without the

>Eliminator (which had no-halt floppy & hard drive controller, real time

>clock, 1 parallel port and 2 serial ports, all on one card) we wouldn't

>have been able to do it all.

>

>>> Is there room for two if I bring a towel? :)

>>

>> Of course!  I'd be honored!

>>

>> Willard

>

>Shades of Allen Huffman and his predilection for Hitchikers Guide to the

>Galaxy...

>

>:-)


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